Sausage Vendor Huang [皇家現烤香腸]

Visit: June 8, 2012
Address: 台北市泉州街32號之3
Number: (02) 2309-7428

My brother was driving me around aimlessly since we had time to kill before heading to this Yilan Restaurant 呂桑. Then he goes "hey, I know this really good sausage place!" So ya, we then traveled to the outskirts of Taipei and BAM, spontaneity landed us some... sausages?

The store/booth

Taiwanese Sausages!

Okay, a little bit disappointed here. I am by no means saying that the sausages were bad... but they were just...good. But then again, I'm not sure what an amazing piece of Chinese sausage would be like.

Taiwan's First Fried Chicken [台灣第一家鹽酥雞]

Visit: April 5, 2012
Address: 台北市中山區北安路530號
Number: (02)2532-1591

I've only actually been here twice, but ever since I discovered the beauty in their fried chicken butt, this has been my favorite fried chicken store.

The Selection

Fried Chicken Butt $30 NT & Fried Chicken Heart $30 NT

Fried Chicken Butt and Fried Chicken Heart

Compared to the previous times that I've been here, the chicken butt was so disappointing. Instead of melting in your mouth like it used to, the fried chicken butt was a little cold. The chicken heart on the other hand, was my first. Although the texture was rather normal, I felt like I could taste the flavor that animal organs usually have...or maybe I was imagining things?

Fried Chicken Skin $30 NT & Fried Chicken $30 NT

Fried Chicken Skin and Fried Chicken

The fried chicken was once again not warm enough for my liking. It feels like has already been sitting out for a while. The chicken skin though was yummy, even though again, I would've liked it warmer. What I love most about eating fried chicken, is the fried basil. I just love how crisp it is!

Although my visit this time wasn't as awesome as I thought it'd be, I still recommend this fried chicken store. If you go there and it's up to its usual standards, you'll want to go back for more!

Street Food at Lane 737 [內湖737巷]

Visit: March 29, 2012
Address: 台北市內湖區內湖路一段737巷

So my mom and I caught wind of a yummy pig blood cake stall in Neihu, and being the fatty I am, I convinced my parents to take me there. Just a word of warning, I made up the English names myself.

Pig Blood Cake [豬血糕]

Pig Blood Cake Stall in Lane 737

When we finally found the stall, there was already a large mob in front of it, not lining up for the pig blood cake itself, but lining up for a numbered ticket for the pig blood cake. As we were standing in the crowd, a man suddenly hands us a ticket and said that he no longer wants to wait even though his number was only 10 after the current one. Well, I can't believe our luck because that stranger saved us about half an hour of waiting. Thank you mysterious stranger.

Pig Blood Cake

 Ta da! The long awaited pig blood cake. The cake itself was a courser than usual which I suspect is because they probably made the cake themselves. However, I didn't really think that the pig blood cake tasted any better than the others at nightmarkets.

Grilled Fried Chicken [碳烤香雞排]

Grilled Fried Chicken Stall

 The stall was next to the pig blood cake stall, and is apparently one of the more well-known ones.

Grilled Fried Chicken

Although I didn't come all the way to Neihu for the chicken, I was much more impressed with the chicken than the pig blood cake. The chicken was crazily tender and by grilling it after frying, it was also tastier than just simply fried chicken.


Egg Cake [雞蛋仔]

Egg Cake Stall

 The egg cake is arguably my favorite Chinese street food, so it's only understandable that I was immediately drawn to the stall.

Making the egg cake...

Instead of the traditional Taiwanese cakes where the egg cakes are actually egg shaped, these somewhat resembled waffles.

Egg Cake

After the cake was taken out of the mold, it was then folded while it was still warm so that it can be easily folded into a bag. The egg cake was SO GOOD! It's the best I've ever had. The outside was really crispy while the inside was airy and still moist and warm. It enhanced everything I loved about traditional egg cakes.

I would definitely visit Lane 737 at NeiHu again. Although this wasn't exactly a nightmarket, there was a huge selection of good food. While I was there, I also had the pleasure of tasting and falling in love with pig liver in sesame oil soup (麻油豬肝) both of which I usually dislike. Lane 737 is a must visit in my book of food. :)